Campaign catchup 2019: Nationals pick bad day to throw lot in with One Nation

Day 20: Hours after Steve Dickson resigns over strip club footage, Michael McCormack says preference deal ‘made sense’

The prime minister was hoping the focus would be on community safety, but Clive Palmer’s shadow looms ever larger this campaign – and the confirmation of a preference deal between the Liberals and Palmer’s United Australia party dogged the Liberal’s campaign. Scott Morrison attempted to call the issue done and dusted: “That issue has run its course and principally because of the hypocrisy of the Labor party who sought to raise this as an issue.” But of course, it won’t be.

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